Helen - if you see this before you set off, can you please check my PM, please?
Many thanks.
Rollo
Welcome, C-D.
Have a great time.
Can I please go on record as saying I think the women on here are wonderful!
I think the "local" reference without somewhere to be local to might be holding this one up! Even West Yorkshire, if I recall, doesn't narrow it down much.
Welcome, OMD. I hope you settle in and have a good time. The "Regulars" will let you get settled and seem like a good bunch really!
I've been here ... what ... just about a month (is that all .. seems forever!) and nobody's laid into me yet.
I expect it will come soon!
Sitting here waiting for my kids to make their fortnightly exodus to spend some time with me, I am torn between two directions on this one.
To discuss the principles behind the "don't alter history because it could cause more harm than good" theory - or wonder why Blue wants to see Homo Erectus.
Does it turn on if someone changes channel on the television by using the remote control? Or if someone's mobile rings?
Now that would be a novel experience.
Helo Jill from London.
That's a coincidence. I'm from London too!
Aren't I the lucky one!! :twisted:
If you get off early, and still have time to spend, walk east along the South Bank, go and see the Tate Modern. This has a mixture of great, great works and utter shite - which is which is purely down to your point of view!
(To give you an idea which side of the fence I sit on, the greatest event in British Art in a hundred years was the Momart Fire).
Then walk north over the Millenium Bridge (I was at University with one of the main deigners) to St Pauls, and get on the Central Line to the Woodford Social Drinkies!
GCSE's?
I'm not going to tell you what year I took my O-levels. Got lots, though.
Well, the way I look at it, you've got to do something with your hands, and origami just doesn't seem right.
Thank you, Auntie Helen! Any wiping up you need doing?
Why don't you issue everyone with a hat built like a Taxi sign when they enter the Munch - then if one of you "fancies it" you can turn the "I'm up for it!" light on, and the other one could either turn on "I'm up for it too!" or the "Off Duty" option.
That would be a whole lot simpler, wouldn't it?
Helen, Clair says if you will put me on the list, she will make sure I get through the door without running away.
If you fancy a sexy sport, try mixed touch rugby.
Great fun!
You;ve made me hungry now!
I made an opportunist purchase of a piece of calves liver in Teso this afternoon - was going to have it for lunch tomorrow.
Think I'll go and drag it through some melted sage butter with a bit of granary bread to wipe the pan out with!
I can usually look after myself - my point is that sometimes you can land head first in the sh1t without knowing why, and that makes it hard to dig yourself out without making the hole bigger!!
Look, people, can I ask a favour?
If I start a thread that offends someone, could you please let me know very early, before you have to take me to the vets and either have me put down or have my knackers removed?
Thanks very much in advance.
I suppose that there are two ways of looking at this.
I can see that there might be the swingers whose attraction is for the simple pleasures of sex without the constraints of a relationship, for whom people of the opposite (or same) sex of similar perspective are natural and willing partners. I would imagine these are the ones that get classified as the "Hello ...... mmmm .... oooohhhh!!!! .... thanks and goodbye" type.
I can also see that, as liberated as swinging might allow you to be, the physical gyrations involved are still a very intimate and personal thing, and you would want to make a bit more than the indifferent contact required by the first type. This is where a bit more mutual compatibility would come in, I feel, even if this stops a long way short of wanting to have each other's children.
Of course, not speaking from great experience, the above could just all be so much bollox.
Is your job a commodity job (I mean are there lots of people who can do what you do) or is it a speciality job (where they would have to look long and hard before finding another you)?
If it is a commodity, you have little to bargain with. If it is a speciality, you have a little more. In this case, you could go back to your management and ask them to consider how much it would cost to replace you, and suggest they bring the rise forward.
In my industry, we have a mix of commodities and specialists and, unfortunately for the commoditites, the specialists are on much better terms and conditions.
Can I share this with you?
About twenty odd years ago, before I was married, my best friend had a beautiful girlfriend. We travelled the world in each other's company as part of a larger group of friends on and off for about five years. But there was a problem. My friend had a habit of after a few beers, of falling asleep. She was different - after a drink, she "warmed up". The result - many nights of mutual manipulation, falling short of "it".
I bought a house, and on the day I moved in, she came round to help me with the soft furnishings.
Just as we were about to get into the second 30 seconds of full on rampaging lovemaking, the door bell went and it was the boyfriend. Hastily dressing, we let him in, and contnued the unpacking.
After that day, we avoided each other for the chaos it would have caused, but both suffered for it and she eventually moved away, having split up with my friend, who to this day does not know.
If it was my last time? I'd go to where she now lives, throw her husband out of the house, and continue from where we left off 20 years ago!